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Dictionary of Labour Biography
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- Editors:
- Keith Gildart
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
- David Howell
Department of Politics, University of York, York, UK
- Brings together a range of specialist authors to comment upon the most important figures in the Labour movement from a variety of periods and backgrounds
- Engages with and reinforces recent historiographical developments in the field of labour history
- Emphasises the ethnic and national diversity of the British labour movement and neglected political traditions
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The Dictionary of Labour Biography has an outstanding reputation as a reference work for the study of nineteenth and twentieth century British history. Volume XV maintains this standard of original and thorough scholarship. Each entry is written by a specialist drawing on an array of primary and secondary sources. The biographical essays engage with recent historiographical developments in the field of labour history. The scope of the volume emphasises the ethnic and national diversity of the British labour movement and neglected political traditions.
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The Dictionary of Labour Biography is an essential source for labour history research. First appearing in , it currently runs to 15 volumes containing detailed biographical entries for 1, individuals, constituting an essential guide to many of the key figures in the labour movement over the past two centuries.
The List of Names published here with the kind permission of the current editors is intended as a research guide to help historians discover whether or not an entry exists, and to locate the correct volume if it does.
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The idea for the dictionary originated with the historian G.D.H. Cole, who had for many years compiled manuscript volumes consisting of hundreds of names with brief biographical details. After his death in , Dame Margaret Cole passed five volumes of entries to John Saville, who undertook to produce a dictionary of labour movement biography. The first mention of the proposed dictionary – then intended as a single Who’s Who style volume – appears in issue one of the Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, published in Autumn
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